Category: The Black Map

The Black Map #16: From Her Ashes from Derby!

Week #16 of our journey across The Black Map of the UK Underground Metal Scene takes us to Derby. The home of Download Festival, famous for giving us Sociology, Lara Croft and the first ever water works system is also the home of DJent infused progressive tech-metal (or as The Derby Evening Telegraph described them

The Black Map #15: Malevolence from Sheffield!

As we head from Lincoln to Sheffield for this weeks entry into our Black Map of the UK Underground Metal Scene, for anyone who has heard their stunningly good “Self Supremacy” it should have been pretty damned obvious it was always going to be Malevolence. It has been a phenomenal year for the Sheffield bruisers,

The Black Map #14: Borders from Lincoln!

Episode #14 of our journey across the Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene sees us heading to the East Midlands City of Lincoln. Not only does the City have a Castle which houses a Victorian Prison, but it also has a copy of the Magna Carta within its walls. But that’s enough of

The Black Map #13: Perception from Southampton!

Week #13 of our journey across The Black Map of the UK Underground Metal Scene takes us to the sunny South coast city of Southampton. Unsigned Tech-Influenced Progressive Metalcore merchants Perception have been running the channels since 2011. Their 2016 EP “Collapse” has been outdone by their newly released “Monolith”, plunging the band into the same

The Black Map: #12: To Kill Achilles from Dundee!

Continuing our journey across the UK’s Black Map of underground metal bands, today we arrive in sunny Dundee for To Kill Achilles. The Scottish post-hardcore fused metallers band have made a name for themselves off the back of their endeavour and sheer hard work. Since their formation in 2010, the quintet comprised of frontman Mark

The Black Map #11: Black Coast from Stoke-on-Trent!

Signed to Artery Global Management, Stoke-On-Trent’s Black Coast have been bringing their brand of furious Melodic Hardcore to the World since 2015. It’s been a tough 3 years with nothing coming as easily as it should for the band but their 2016 EP “The Crows Of The North” released via Monument Music took them down

The Black Map #10: Continents from Cardiff!

Kerrang! magazine once described Continents sound as “Energy-fuelled epic-core with lots of aggression, a healthy blend of raw shouts and low end growls and foot stomping hooks. Their music and intense stage presence has separated them from the ever-growing UK Metal/Hardcore scene”. Getting heads banging since 2010, Cardiff’s Continents have had one hell of a ride so

The Black Map #9: Perception from Oxford!

Continuing our journey across The Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene, we head from Glasgow down to leafy Oxford. Unsigned Tech-Influenced Metalcore crew Perception have been busy cutting down everything in their path since 2012 and supporting anyone and everyone at shows the length and breadth of our green and pleasant land at

The Black Map #8: From Sorrow To Serenity from Glasgow!

We continue our journey around the 69 Cities of our green and pleasant land and march The Black Map from Newcastle to Glasgow and spotlight From Sorrow To Serenity. The Scottish Metallers haven’t had it easy, having to recruit former Nexilva frontman Gaz King in 2017 and released stand-alone single “Golden Age” in follow up to

The Black Map #7: Starve To Survive from Newcastle!

Our journey around the Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene returns to the North of England this week. Sharing stages with the likes of Lotus Eater, Oasiah and From Sorrow To Serenity, Newcastle’s Deathcore quintet Starve To Survive have been making a ruckus since 2014. Released in December of 2016, their debut EP “Life//Loss”